‘2.0’ records two-day box office collections of Rs 109 crore

On the first day, "2.0" grossed around Rs 84 crores worldwide at the box office. However, some think that the story written by Shankar wasn't up to the mark.

Rajinikanth and Akshay's latest movie 2.0 has created hype as the film is doing great at the box office. "Here's what Taran Adarsh wrote in his assessment tweet: "#2Point0 jumps on Day 3 [Sat]. The film opened to a bumper hit by collecting Rs 20 crore, according to Boxofficeindia.com.

Rajinikanth starrer "2.0", that is a sequel to his flick "Robot" has collected a whopping Rs 2.64 crore in Chennai pushing Vijay's "Sarkar" (that had managed to collect 2.37 crore on its first day) to the second place. In TN as a whole, the film has grossed close to 18 CR which is Rajini's 2nd best opener in the state below Kabali, but Shankar's career best.

The film also stars Amy Jackson and Sudhanshu Pandey in pivotal roles.

Out of the ₹74 crore, the Hindi version of 2.0 contributed about ₹21 crore, while collections from Tamil Nadu stood at ₹20 crore. The film is believed to grossed around Rs 250 crore in its opening weekend worldwide. The film marks the return of Dr Vaseegran and Chitti and witnesses the emergence of an ever-so-powerful villain in Akshay Kumar as Pakshiraja. The famous movie download website TamilRockers has been a threat to the filmmakers from last 10 years and the reason is that the website provides the film on the same day of its release.

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